Online poker, now a multi-billion-dollar industry, allows players across the world to compete with each other without the benefits or hassles of sitting in a room with your opponents. Therefore, instead of analyzing body language, eye movements, and other tell-tale signs of the bluff, one instead analyzes playing techniques and their own ambitions.

Online Poker Benefits

Online poker allows novices to learn at a more rapid rate and allows experts to play multiple hands at one time. Online Poker usually handles the two most popular types of poker to include Five card draw and Texas holdem. Some sites offer other variations of poker such as Seven card stud, Razz, and Omaha. Online poker can use actual money where a $20 buy-in may apply or numerous sites have free online poker where one plays for the competition and may or may not get prizes redeemable with the token winnings.

Texas Holdem

Texas hold’em, popularized with televised tournaments, starts with the dealer dealing everyone two cards and is one of the most popular games to play poker online. In order to stay in the game, everyone throws in an ante. Then, the flop occurs which are the first three cards the dealer lays down. Then, everyone has the option to check or raise regarding the flop and your hand. Then, the fourth and fifth cards where each player can check or raise depending upon their hand which are the best five cards, pursuant to regular poker game rules of the best hands.

Five Card Draw

Five Card Draw is the classic poker game where each player is dealt five cards and can give the dealer back up to four cards, receiving new ones making the best possible five cards in the hopes of beating their opponents with a better hand. Seven Card StudSeven Card stud is the poker game where the dealer gives everyone seven cards. Each player has three times to bet. The primary difference with this game are the clubs, diamonds, hearts, and spades hold value (in that order – worst to best). So, if two players have the same hand, for example one pair, the player’s suit, determines the winner. Winning Hands Royal Flush – All the same suit, in order from ace, king, queen, jack, ten Straight Flush – All the same suit, any five cards in order. For example: two, three, four, five, six of clubs Four of a Kind – Four of the same number or royalty. For example: 4 queens Full House – Two of one number/royalty, and three of another number/royalty. For example: 2 jacks and 3 fives Flush – All the same suit. For example, any five cards, all hearts Straight – Any five cards in order. For example: eight, nine, ten, jack, queen Three of a Kind – Three of the same number/royalty. For example: 3 aces Two Pair – One pair of one number/royalty and another pair of another number/royalty. For example: 2 threes and 2 tens One Pair – One pair of a number/royalty High Card – 2 through Ace, where Ace is the highest card Online poker is available to all ages, using the winning hands above with the different variations of the game of poker as mentioned.

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